From the Université de Genève press release: We all know the feeling of a mobile phone vibrating in our hands when announcing an incoming call. If we perceive these vibrations so clearly, it is due…
From the Salk Institute press release: It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for. In a famous example, people were asked to closely observe two groups of people — one group clad in black,…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: Having a parent with Alzheimer’s disease has been known to raise a person’s risk of developing the disease, but new research suggests that having second- and third-degree…
From the University at Buffalo press release: Though it’s easy to hear a singer hit a bad note, what’s contributing to that inaccuracy might actually be inaudible. Sub-vocalization, the silent, preparatory muscle movements of the face…
From the University of Bonn press release: If functionality of the brain’s amygdala is impaired, illusory perceptions arise much faster and more pronounced. This was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University…
From the University of Texas at Austin press release: Choosing to forget something might take more mental effort than trying to remember it, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin discovered through neuroimaging. These…
From the City College of New York press release: Music has the ability to captivate us; when listeners engage with music, they follow its sounds closely, connecting to what they hear in an affective and…
From the University of Illinois at Chicago press release: A growing body of evidence supports the idea that alcohol exposure early in life has lasting effects on the brain and increases the risk of psychological…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers have identified changes in brain connectivity and brain activity during rest and reward anticipation in children with anhedonia, a condition where people lose interest and…
From the University of Toronto press release: The way we encode our memories involves many pieces of information, and scientists have looked at how most of them work. But one dimension still eludes them: time.…